Fact-checking Donald Trump's claim that wind turbines kill whales

Some conservationists have raised concerns about whale deaths near the development of an offshore wind farm off the US east coast.

This series of strandings led some Republican lawmakers to call for a temporary halt to all development of offshore wind farms, and further research into possible links to humpback whale deaths.

Since then, hundreds of posts wrongly linking wind farms to whale deaths have been spreading on social media, with hundreds of thousands of views.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that, since 2016, a total of 208 humpback whales have been stranded along the country's east coast.

The problem was deemed so serious that, in 2017, the US agency dubbed it an "unusual mortality event".

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